Shield for toilet-seats.



A. G. DAHLGREN.

SHIELD FOR TOILET SEATS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.11,1913.'

Patented Sept. 8, 1914.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 8, 1914.

Application med November 11, 1913. Serial No. 800,294.

To all whom it ma concern:

Be it known t at I, AMANDA G. DAHL- GREN, citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Shields for Toilet-Seats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in toilet chairs, moreparticularly to those employed by very young children, and has for oneof its objects to provide an attachment whereby the urine is guided intothereceiving vessel and prevented thereby from being discharged outsideof the vessel.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simply constructeddevice which may be adapted without material structural change to seatsof chairs, closets and the like of varying sizes and forms. Anotherobject of the invention is to provide a device of this character whichmay be readily attached to the seat of a chair or closet by any personwithout previous skill or knowledge, and which may be readily cleansedwithout removal from the seat.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction as hereafter shown and described and thenspecifically pointed out in the claims, and in the drawings illustrativeof the preferred embodiment of this invention:

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a toilet seat with the .improveddevice attached and also in section. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of theseat with the attachment in section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 Fig. 3 isa detached perspective view of the improved device. Fig. 4 is a viewsimilar to Fig. 1 illustrating a modification in the construe-- tion.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the accompanying 'drawingsby the same reference characters.

The improved device comprises a guardor guide of any suitable material,attached in a novel manner beneath a toilet seat in position to receivethe urine and guide it into the receiving vessel. The guard or guide maybe of metal, wood or other material, but will preferably be of sheetmetal pressed into the required shape and coated with non-corrosivesubstance or material,

surface, or

one side hollowed to conform tothe opening 12 of the seat. Dependingfrom the member 10 is a shell or body 13 open towardthe inner side-andconverging downwardly and terminating in a spout-like lower end 14, thelatter adapted to be located over the receiving vessel, not shown. Themembers 10-13 may be pressed or otherwise formed from a single sheet asrepresented in Fig. 4:, or in separable parts, as illustrated in Figs.1, 2 and 3. When constructed in separable parts, the member 10 will beformed with a depending rim 15 curved inwardly to receive a head 16 atthe upper edge of the shell or body 13 which is thus held fromdisplacement downwardly. The member 10 "is provided with a plurality ofoutwardly directed ears 17, while the member 13 is provided withoutwardly directed ears 19 but it is not desired to limit the bearingbeneath the ears 17 which are located nearest to the opening 12, asillustrated in Fig. 1. The cars are designed to receive holding screwsor other fastening devices 18, engaging in the seat 11.

The improved device is simple in construction, can be inexpensivelymanufactured from various materials, and adapted without materialstructural changes to toilet seats of various forms and sizes, and toseats of various materials.

I Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A device of the class described comprising a top member having anundercurving rim at one edge formed in sections spaced apart, adepending member having a bead at the upper edge formed in sectionsspaced apart and engaging respectively in the undercurving rim sectionsof the top member, an ear projecting from the depending section andextended between the turned-under rim sections and adapted to be securedto a support and means adapted to connect the top section and thedepending section to a support at their forward edges.

2. A top member having an undercurving rim at one edge formed insections spaced apart and with terminal cars, a depending member havinga head at the upper edge formed in sections spaced apart and devices[toeedurvtheitpiniembeimnd, the engaging in the under-curving rim sections,do end member to a support. 10 an ear projecting from the depending sec-I I, test1mony,whe1reo I afiix my signation and extending between thecurvedture in resenee of two witnesses.

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from the depending member an bearmg Witnesses: beneath the terminal earsof the ,top. mem- Ismoan H. Wnnum, her, said ears adapted to receivefastening ALICE WEINER,

